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| 13401234972 | Pantoum | A poetic form that may consist of any number of four-lined stanzas, but in any case, the second and fourth lines of one stanza must reappear as the first and third lines of the following stanza. | 0 | |
| 13401238861 | Parable | An illustrative story teaching a lesson. | 1 | |
| 13401243760 | Paradox | A statement although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true. | 2 | |
| 13401247256 | Parody | A composition imitating another, usually serious piece, designed to ridicule a work or its style or author. | 3 | |
| 13401254090 | Pastoral | A poem about shepherds and rustic life. | 4 | |
| 13401260640 | Pathetic Fallacy | A type of often accidental or awkward personification in which a writer ascribes the human feelings of his or her characters to inanimate objects or non-human phenomena surrounding them in the natural world. | 5 | |
| 13401270717 | Pathos | The quality in art and literature that stimulates pity, tenderness, or sorrow. | 6 | |
| 13401273621 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence not grammatically complete before its end. | 7 | |
| 13401290085 | Peripeteia | The reversal of fortune for a protagonist - possibly either a fall, as in a tragedy, or a success, as in a comedy. | 8 | |
| 13401295867 | Personification | A figure of speech in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions. | 9 | |
| 13401299591 | Petrachan sonnet | A sonnet divided into an octave and a sestet. The octave has two quatrains rhyming abba, abba, the first of which presents the theme, the second further develops it. In the sestet, the first three lines reflect on or exemplify the theme, while the last three bring the poem to a unified end. The sestet may be arranged cdecde, cdcdcd, or cdedce. | 10 | |
| 13401318846 | Phillipic | Any bitter speech or harangue. | 11 | |
| 13401322775 | Philology | The scientific study of both language and literature. | 12 | |
| 13401328440 | Picaresque Novel | A chronicle, usually autobiographical, presenting the life story of a rascal of low degree (picaro) engaged in menial tasks and making his living more through his wits than with his industry. | 13 | |
| 13401338097 | Plagiarism | Literary theft. | 14 | |
| 13401341824 | Plot | The structure and relationship of actions and events in a work of fiction. | 15 | |
| 13401347672 | Poetry | A term applied to the many forms in which human beings have given rhythmic expression to their most intense perceptions of the world, themselves, and the relation of the two. | 16 | |
| 13401361291 | Point of View | The vantage point from which an author presents a story. It governs the reader's access to the story. | 17 | |
| 13401375673 | Polysyndeton | The use of more conjunctions than is normal. | 18 | |
| 13401379551 | Precis | An abstract or an abstract or epitome of the essential facts or statements of a work, retaining the order of the original. | 19 | |
| 13401388118 | Prologue | An introduction most frequently associated with drama and especially common in the plays of the Restoration and the eighteenth century. | 20 | |
| 13401392308 | Prose | The term is applied to all forms of written or spoken expression not having a regular rhythmic pattern. It is often meant to designate a consciously shaped writing, not merely a listing of ideas or a catalog of objects. | 21 | |
| 13401398674 | Prosody | The principles of versification, particularly as they refer to rhyme, meter, rhythm, and stanza. | 22 | |
| 13401405161 | Protagonist | The chief character in a work. | 23 | |
| 13401414415 | Proverb | A saying that briefly and memorably expresses some recognized truth about life. | 24 | |
| 13401423621 | Pun | A play on words. | 25 | |
| 13401431758 | Pyrrhic | A foot of two unstressed syllables (u u), such as "When the blood creeps and the nerves prick." | 26 | |
| 13401435013 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines. | 27 | |
| 13401439078 | Quip | A retort or sarcastic jest; any witty saying. | 28 | |
| 13401446907 | Refrain | One or more words repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza. | 29 | |
| 13401450545 | Repartee | A "comeback"; a quick, ingenious response or rejoinder; a retort aptly twisted; conversation made up of witty remarks. | 30 | |
| 13401482357 | Repetition | Reiteration of a word, sound, phrase, or idea. | 31 | |
| 13401495693 | Resolution | The outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events; an aftermath that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot. | 32 | |
| 13401498963 | Rhetoric | The art of persuasion. It has to do with the presentation of ideas in clear, persuasive language. | 33 | |
| 13401510627 | Rhyme | Matching similarity of sounds in two or more words, especially when their accented vowels and all succeeding consonants are identical. | 34 | |
| 13401517792 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza. | 35 | |
| 13401521841 | Rhythm | The varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech, especially poetry. | 36 | |
| 13401526808 | Rising Action | The action in a play before the climax in Freytag's pyramid. | 37 | |
| 13401531202 | Romance | A type of writing marked by strong interest in action, with episodes often based on love, adventure, and combat. | 38 | |
| 13401536105 | Round character | A multi-dimensional character. | 39 |
